fixations

plural of fixation

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of fixations Tim Robinson, who so often plays men consumed by petty fixations or compelled to take things too far, has his own fixations. Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2025 The world Maddie lives in is populated by eccentric characters who wear their respective fixations on their sleeve. Jourdain Searles, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025 One of Loeffler’s biggest fixations was building in backup strategies for his game plans. Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fixations
obsessions
Noun
  • Look to the other jewelry obsessions prevailing during the fall 2025 season.
    Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2025
  • What affected me most in Lahiri’s story was the sense of time passing, the way our obsessions seem meaningless in the aftermath of tragic events (or, rather, from the larger vantage point of a life).
    Cressida Leyshon, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2025

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“Fixations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fixations. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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